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Hello and welcome to my moth Blog. I now reside in a small village in East Cambridgeshire called Fordham. My Blog's aim is to promote and encourage others to participate in the wonderful hobby that is Moth-trapping.
Moth records are vital for building a picture of our ecosystem around us, as they really are the bottom of the food chain. They are an excellent early indicator of how healthy a habitat is. I openly encourage people to share their findings via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.
So why do we do it? well for some people it is to get an insight into the world of Moths, for others it is to build a list of species much like 'Twitching' in the Bird world. The reason I do it....you just never know what you might find when you open up that trap! I hope to show what different species inhabit Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties.
On this Blog you will find up-to-date records and pictures.
I run a trap regularly in my garden and also enjoy doing field trips to various localities over several different counties.
Please also check out the links in the sidebar to the right for other people's Blogs and informative Websites.
Thanks for looking and happy Mothing!

KEY

NFY = New Species For The Year
NFG = New Species For The Garden
NEW! = New Species For My Records

Any Species highlighted in RED signifies a totally new species for my records.

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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday 10 June 2010

The Garden Moth Trap - Wednesday night

Still and calm last night, quite the opposite to what today turned into, windy and cool and subsequently i'm having 2 nights off trapping now, through possible tiredness!
Another good haul of Moths, with lots more micro moths now showing, Haworth's Pug being the best and a first garden record for the micro that I initially thought was Light Brown Apple Moth turned out to be a new species - Clepsis consimilana


Pictures


Clepsis consimilana









Haworth's Pug







Knot Grass











Cnephasia sp









Parornix sp












Catch Report - Hatfield Broad Oak - 09/06/10 - 125w MV Robinson Trap


Macro Moths

1x Haworth's Pug [NFY]
1x Knot Grass [NFY]
1x Straw Dot
2x Light Emerald
1x Pale Mottled Willow
1x Pale Oak Beauty
1x Lesser Swallow Prominent
1x Willow Beauty
1x Common Marbled Carpet
2x Mottled Rustic
2x Flame
2x Vine's Rustic
2x Turnip Moth
1x Treble Lines
1x Brimstone Moth
1x Silver-ground Carpet
6x Pale Tussock
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1x Buff-tip
1x Seraphim
1x Garden Carpet
1x Marbled Minor
3x Common Pug
2x Mottled Pug
1x Riband Wave
1x Clouded Border
1x White Ermine
15x Common Swift
2x Large Nutmeg
1x Nutmeg
1x Rustic Shoulder-knot
14x Heart & Dart

Micro Moths

1x Clepsis consimilana [NFG]
1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY]
1x Agapeta hamana
1x Cnephasia sp
1x Parornix sp
2x Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana
4x Crambus lathoniellus
2x Ephestia parasitella
3x Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella
3x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana
1x Epiblema cynosbatella
1x Celypha lacunana
3x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata
1x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 22:25

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